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Last updated 08:23, March 29 2016
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iPhone SE analysis by Blayne Slabbert
If you've been adhering on to your old 4-inch iPhone and biting those who use bigger ones, afresh you ability be tempted by Apple's latest device.
Apple's iPhone SE (special edition) goes on auction in New Zealand on Friday and it's the company's attempt to win over the millions who adopt abate smartphones.
It costs $749 for 16B of accumulator and $949 for 64GB.
The SE - like aloof about every buzz appear these canicule - is an accomplished accessory that is advised to the aforementioned accepted as added Apple products. The catechism is not whether it's a acceptable phone, but whether it's account buying.
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WHO IS THE PHONE FOR?
The aboriginal bodies in band will be anyone who loves the admeasurement of their iPhone 4S or any of the iPhone 5 ambit and wants to upgrade.
The SE will be abundant for these people. It looks absolutely the same, but it's alert as able as a 5S and the array will aftermost decidedly longer.
However, afore you buy, abeyance and anticipate if you absolutely allegation it. Check if any of the appearance address afore committing. If you are alone authoritative calls and texting, your accepted accessory is apparently all you need.
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The iPhone SE goes on auction in New Zealand on Friday.
Another accumulation tempted will be bodies who've confused to a bigger buzz and are balked because it's difficult to fit into their abridged or purse, or they acquisition it adamantine to use with one hand.
The SE is a bunched little assemblage that is lighter than it looks. I about noticed it in my abridged compared to my accepted phone. Also, it's been a continued time aback I've calmly been able to use a buzz with one hand.
The aftermost accumulation is first-time smartphone buyers who appetite an iPhone. The SE is a able accessory that has high-end appearance begin in $1000-plus phones.
If you appetite these appearance and like the abate size, afresh it will accommodated your needs. If you are affairs for your children, parents or yourself and alone allegation basal features, afresh you may appetite to attending at a secondhand 5C or 5S.
WHAT ARE THE BEST FEATURES?
Apple has called to up-spec this buzz and it's about too able for basal users. However, the latest processors and added tech such as a fingerprint scanner agency you could apprehend to get at atomic three years from this buzz unless your needs change.
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Prices for the iPhone SE starts at $749.
The capital camera is absurd for a buzz of this amount and size. It has best of the aforementioned tech from the iPhone 6S which costs $450 more.
You will apprehension a cogent advance in angel affection if you're advance from an earlier phone. However, the advanced camera has alone 1.2MP which is bad account for selfie fans.
It can additionally booty 4K video which is abundant but has some drawbacks. First, clips will booty up a lot of amplitude on your buzz and you will acquisition earlier computers will attempt with alteration footage. For best bodies it's a benefit affection that you may never use.
The array activity on this buzz is good. I got about two canicule use afore defective to allegation it.
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The keyboard of the SE, left, is abundant narrower than the iPhone 6.
But the best affection is its size. I admired actuality able to use a buzz afresh with one hand, aloof application my deride to cantankerous rather than the feel from my added hand.
It block into the advanced abridged of alike the tightest brace of jeans and there's no allegation to accident accident to your buzz by putting it in your aback pocket.
DOWNSIDES OF BEING SMALL
If you amount examination images and video, the SE may not accommodated your needs. I get balked with Instagram on my accepted buzz (you can't zoom images on that app) and it's worse on the 4-inch screen.
While the 0.7-inch aberration amid a SE and 6 or 6S doesn't complete much, I absolutely noticed a aberration in the amplitude of the screen. This was abnormally back application an app that can't be addled horizontally.
It's additionally apparent back application the keyboard. It seems tiny and if you've got big digits afresh this could be a accord breaker.
The argument is additionally abate on apps or websites, however, you can access the admeasurement in settings.
But for examination photos you've taken, it's accessible to zoom or cast the phone, and the awning is nice and sharp.
Bigger phones accept become accepted because bodies like to use them for all their agenda needs.
They can be acclimated as a cantankerous amid a phone, book and computer. For me, the SE is actual abundant aloof a phone.
WHAT SIZE SHOULD I BUY?
Apple offers two accumulator options - 16GB and 64GB.
The abate admeasurement is OK for basal use, but you'll acquisition it'll ample up fast with apps, photos and videos. However, you can use billow accumulator to supplement this. Apple accuse $1.29 a ages for 20GB, and you can additionally use agnate casework from Google.
If you booty lots of photos and video, afresh you apparently will allegation the 64GB model, abnormally if you appetite to booty 4K footage (3 account eats up 1GB of storage).
However, afresh you're advantageous $949 which agency you should attending at added phones that accept bigger screens.
IS IT WORTH THE MONEY?
The iPhone SE is an accomplished buzz for the price, with abounding appearance that are alone begin in $1000-plus devices.
For iPhone admirers who adulation the abate size, it's a abundant phone.
However, that doesn't beggarly you should buy it.
The best important affair about affairs a buzz (or any gadget) is to ask yourself what you appetite to use it for.
If it's aloof texting or authoritative calls afresh there are affluence of cheaper phones that will assignment OK. Also, if you are a ability user who consumes a lot of videos afresh a bigger awning may be a bigger buy.
However, if you like abate phones and Apple products, afresh the SE is account a look.
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